The Mother of all Days

This photo taken on Mother's Day reminded me that really everyday is Mother's Day. I think that most moms fantasize about the perfect Mother's Day where they get to sleep in and a wonderful breakfast, including coffee, arrives while you slowly rise. Then your perfect children trot into your room and tell you how wonderful you are and your husband gives you a huge piece of jewelry and tells you that life would not go on if it were not for every single thing that you do each day. Well, the reality looks more like this photo with one child attached to you and the other trying to run away, while you just hang in there with a smile on your face.

This Mother's Day we went to the park and had a picnic. It seemed like a monumental amount of work, but it was worth the effort. While hanging out with the kids and Brad at the park, I was reminded that everyday really is a celebration of mothers and all that we do and have done for our families. So thank you mom and all the other mothers out there for putting in the monumental effort that is called Motherhood.

Staying A-Five

The past five months have flown and crawled by at the same time. Harper is growing up too fast. She is already 26.75 inches and weights 17.5 pounds. Her best trick so far is that when she wakes up at night as soon as you walk into her room she grins from ear-to-ear and starts kicking her feet like she's never been so excited to see someone in her whole life. She also rolls over and sits up on her own for a little bit at a time. She loves to laugh especially at her brother Finn.

Sitting Surprised

Harper started out her life as a surprise and hasn't stopped since. A couple of weeks ago I put her down to see how she would do sitting up. I expected her to fall right over, but she surprised me by sitting up for quite some time. Yesterday I looked inside her little mouth and surprise, there was her first tooth. So far each surprise has been a pleasant one and we are hoping that they stay that way.